# Filing Form and Schedule

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- **citation:** 4 CCR 723-4 Rule 4552
- **title:** Filing Form and Schedule
- **source type:** regulation
- **agency:** Colorado Public Utilities Commission
- **status:** current
- **official:** true
- **published on:** Not available
- **effective on:** Not available
- **summary:** (a) The utility shall file a gas infrastructure plan every two years unless otherwise required by the Commission through rule or order. (I) The largest gas distribution utility in Colorado, as determined by the volume of gas sold in Colorado, shall file a gas infrastructure plan by May 1, 2023. (II)
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(a) The utility shall file a gas infrastructure plan every two years unless otherwise
required by the Commission through rule or order.
(I) The largest gas distribution utility in Colorado, as determined by the
volume of gas sold in Colorado, shall file a gas infrastructure plan by May
1, 2023.
(II) All other utilities shall file a gas infrastructure plan by March 1, 2024.
(b) The utility shall file a gas infrastructure plan pursuant to this paragraph 4552(b) in
accordance with paragraph 4552(c), for which the following requirements shall
apply:

(I) The filing shall include the elements required by rule 4553, except the
utility shall be allowed to present an analysis of alternatives pursuant to
subparagraph 4553(c)(I)(P) for the following number of new business and
capacity expansion projects unless that number exceeds the total number
of planned new business and capacity expansion projects presented in the
gas infrastructure plan.
(A) For utilities with 500,000 customers or more, the utility shall provide
an analysis of alternatives for at least five projects classified as
either new business or capacity expansion projects.
(B) For utilities with more than 50,000 full-service customers and less
than 500,000 customers, the utility shall provide an analysis of
alternatives for at least two projects classified as either new
business or capacity expansion projects.
(C) For utilities with less than 50,000 full-service customers, the utility
shall provide an analysis of alternatives for at least one project
classified as either new business or capacity expansion project.
(II) Upon receipt of the filing, the Commission will open a proceeding, notice
the filing, and establish an intervention period for the purpose of
establishing parties and set a calendar for written comments from parties
to the proceeding. Parties may conduct discovery on the filing and on any
prefiled testimony submitted with the filing.
(III) The Commission will establish procedures for the proceeding that shall
include one or more public comment hearings.
(IV) The Commission, on its own motion or at the request of others, may
request additional supporting information from the utility or the parties to
the proceeding.
(V) The Commission will issue a written decision, within 150 days of filing if
practicable, regarding the adequacy of the utility’s filed gas infrastructure
plan and the methods and processes the utility used in formulating the gas
infrastructure plan and providing guidance to be used in the preparation of
the biennial filings required pursuant to paragraph 4552(d).

(c) For utilities with 500,000 full-service customers or more, a utility’s first gas
infrastructure plan shall be eligible to be filed pursuant to paragraph 4552(b) in a
miscellaneous proceeding to be opened by the Commission for each utility. For
utilities with less than 500,000 customers, a utility’s first two gas infrastructure
plans shall be eligible to be filed pursuant to paragraph 4552(b). All subsequent
gas infrastructure plans shall be filed pursuant to paragraph 4552(d). A utility, at
its own discretion, may voluntarily file a gas infrastructure plan it is eligible to file
under paragraph 4552(b) instead as an application under paragraph 4552(d).
(d) Pursuant to the schedule in paragraph 4552(a), and subject to the eligibility
requirements in paragraph 4552(c), the utility shall file its gas infrastructure plan
as an application administered pursuant to the Commission's Rules of Practice
and Procedure, 4 CCR 723-1.
(I) A utility’s gas infrastructure plan shall meet the requirements of rules 4002
and 4553.
(II) The utility shall identify in the application any planned projects within the
gas infrastructure plan action period for which it seeks a certificate of
public convenience and necessity pursuant to rule 4102, a declaratory
order that the planned project is in the ordinary course of business, or
other relief to be addressed by the Commission in its decision rendered
pursuant to rule 4555. For planned projects exceeding the cost thresholds
in rule 4102 for which the utility seeks relief pursuant to this subparagraph
(d)(II), the utility may include the requirements of rule 4102 in an
application submitted pursuant to the Gas Infrastructure Planning Rules.
(III) The Commission may hold a hearing for the purpose of reviewing and
rendering a decision regarding the contents of the utility’s gas
infrastructure plan.
(IV) Prior to the filing of the application, the utility shall hold one or more public
workshops to educate, and facilitate feedback from, stakeholders and
potential intervenors on the projects selected, the utility’s approach to
alternatives analyses for the projects selected, and the results of the
utility’s alternatives analyses, pursuant to subparagraph 4553(c)(I)(P) with
the goal of facilitating a robust and broadly supported set of alternatives
analyses upon the filing of the application. Following each public
workshop, the utility shall accept written comments for up to fourteen days
from stakeholders and potential intervenors.
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